Sean Michael Kerner

Canonical, the lead commercial vendor behind the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, is getting into the Kubernetes market. Canonical now offers a freely available implementation of Kubernetes as well as commercial-support options. “I have no doubt that Kubernetes will be one of the major container co-ordination systems,” Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, told ServerWatch. Canonical […]

Oracle continues to grow its cloud business during the first quarter of its fiscal 2017 year. The move to the cloud hasn’t entirely left Oracle’s server hardware business behind, though, as Exadata-engineered server systems play a supporting role in the cloud growth. For the quarter, Oracle reported revenue of $8.6 billion, for a two percent […]

The global server market has suffered through a bit of a rough patch so far in 2016, but there may be clearer skies ahead according to analyst firms IDC and Gartner. IDC reported global server revenue of $13.4 billion in the second quarter, for a 0.4 percent year-over-year decline. In contrast, Gartner reported a 0.8 […]

Red Hat is now working on the next milestone of its flagship operating system platform with the new beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (RHEL). The RHEL 7.3 beta is the first major milestone update for RHEL in 2016 and follows the release of RHEL 7.2 that became generally available in November 2015. […]

Rackspace reported its second quarter fiscal 2016 earnings on August 8, on the same day it announced the sale of its Cloud Sites business unit to Liquid Web. For the quarter, Rackspace reported revenue of $524 million, for a 7 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $36 million, up from $28.3 million in […]

Red Hat today announced its Satellite 6.2 update, providing users with new capabilities for Red Hat server management. Among the key new features is a container host provisioning capability that enables administrators with new power for container deployment. “We can deploy containers by connecting directly to the docker daemon on the host,” Rich Jerrido, Satellite […]

SUSE and Microsoft are expanding their decade-old partnership to the cloud. Today the two companies announced that SUSE has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance and the Microsoft Test Drive program. The Test Drive program will enable Microsoft Azure customers to try out SUSE’s High Performance Computing (HPC) edition of its Linux server. “SUSE’s business […]

The first quarter of 2016 is not shaping up as particularly bright one for server vendors, based on the latest analyst reports from Gartner and IDC. According to Gartner, worldwide server revenue declined 2.3 percent year over year, while shipments grew 1.7 percent. IDC reported a steeper revenue decline of 3.6 percent, with first quarter […]

The promise of live patching for a Linux kernel is one that multiple vendors have been chasing for several years. Today, SUSE announced the latest iteration of its live patching approach, with SUSE Linux Enterprise Live patching, targeting users of SAP applications, including the HANA in-memory database. SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching is available for […]

Among the most disruptive changes in Linux over the last decade has been in the introduction and broad integration of the systemd init system into Linux. In a keynote session at the CoreOS Fest in Berlin this week, Lennart Poettering, one of the lead developers of systemd, delivered a detailed technical keynote on some of […]

Among the biggest drivers of continued server growth in 2016 and beyond is the continued usage of servers as part of cloud infrastructure. According to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, $38.2 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue is forecast for 2016, including the cost of server, storage, and Ethernet switches. The 2016 forecast […]

In June 2015, Appformix emerged from stealth with a $7 million Series A round of funding and a technology platform that promises to give enterprises more control over their application infrastructure. This week, Appformix is taking its promise a step further, thanks to an integration with the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 for servers […]